I suggest you to use a shell (.login ?) to build CLASSPATH from the content of a /lib directory. This way you can easyly maintain your jars.
Nico. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 3:54 PM Subject: Re: combining commons-*.jar > I think bundling them is a very bad idea. It may seem like it's saving you > time for the classpath issue but I think it would only hurt you in the long > run. Upgrading components becomes difficult and the next person maintaining > the project will likely be confused. > > David > > > >Well, i am using weblogic 5.1, which seems to be the most ignorant servlet > >container I have ever used. It requires explicit paths to EVERY class, so > >I have to reference the root of my packages (i.e. WEB-INF/classes) and > >EVERY individual jar file that needs to be referenced at run time, even if > >they are placed in WEB-INF/lib. Normally I would leave things as is, but > >my classpath is rediculous as is, and it seems like all these jars combined > >with replaced about eight individual entries with one commons-*.jar file. > > > >Do you follow my logic? > >Jason > > > > > >-------Original Message------- > >From: Chris Trawick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: 02/21/03 08:46 AM > >To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: Re: combining commons-*.jar > > > > > > > > What is cleaning up the classpath about anyway? For building? Ant > >takes > >care of that, just use a lib directory. For deployment? Try /WEB-INF/lib > >or use your container's libdir. > > > >Coupling all the commons products together violates their designed > >modularity and introduces bloat. I personally don't have warm fuzzies > >about > >bundling 8 megs of fluff with every war and passing it around between > >different servers. It especially gets in the way of JBoss, when a large > >transfer (even just filesystem-to-filesystem) can cause the deployer to > >hose > >itself by trying to load the thing before it's actually there. > > > >Then again, maybe your situation is different... > > > >chris > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Jason Vinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:33 AM > >Subject: Re: Re: combining commons-*.jar > > > > > > > So if there was an upgrade, i could just rebundle them all correct? If > >that's the only drawback, I think I may go ahead and combine them. Anyone > >else care to comment? > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > -------Original Message------- > > > From: Ian Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: 02/21/03 08:32 AM > > > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: combining commons-*.jar > > > > > > > > > > > If one component was upgraded, you'd have to replace the whole > >shootin' > > > match. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Jason Vinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:28 AM > > > Subject: combining commons-*.jar > > > > > > > > > > This may be a dumb question, but is there any reason to not combine > >all > > > the commons-*.jar libraries into one jar file? I am attempting to clean > > > up > > > our server's classpath, and combining all these jars would really help > > > out. > > > > > > > > TIA, > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
